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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I took my now wife window shopping for rings when we were getting close to engagement time so that I'd know what she would want. It was clear that the answer was gonna be yes no matter what, but I knew she'd have a ring preference anyway. She saw prices and explicitly said that she'd like white sapphire on sterling silver. I found a bridal set that she adores which very much did not cost a month or two of salary.

Because we didn't blow a ton of money on engagement/wedding shit, we've had much more resources to support the marriage itself. I've heard of regular everyday people spending $3-4k on a fucking ring. We spent 9 days in a few different places in Spain for about that cost instead lol.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"ill buy you a diamond if you buy me an equally-expensive gaming pc"

"never mind"

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Am girl

Just grow em in a lab. Dirt diamonds are for boomers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you really love me, you’ll cut off a pound of flesh, cremate it, and use the ashes to make a diamond.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Those semi rare gems are the best.

As pretty as the ruby/diamond/emrald stones, but without the absurd costs.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Moissanite has better sparkle and fire than diamond. It literally looks better! And as the article says, it’s mostly about the setting more than the stone

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just buy the fucking fake diamonds 90% the same, but less fucking slave labor and 1/100th of the price

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

They are actually better as they are more pure

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly, they are ugly too. Get a real stone, like charoite or iolite. Oh, maybe moonstone. Anything but basic bitch clear rock.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

They are shiny though. Get some lab-grown ones.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Give her industrial diamonds. Something with a practical use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Ooo, I would love some diamond sharpening stones for xmas.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Industrial drill bits are a girl's best friend.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Anything is a dildo if you try hard enough?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Luckily my girlfriend is on board with this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Get her welsh gold instead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Give her some sugar cane and bananas.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Whenever I think about the diamond market I think about the episode of the Twilight Zone where gold becomes worthless in the future because it's manufacturable.

As evidence by the diamond market, even if we could manufacture gold (somehow) even higher in quality than the purest gold available naturally, people would still want the, objectively worse, natural stuff, because for some reason the human rights violations that go into getting it makes it more valuable.

TL;DR: it's the child labor that makes it special

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

You can make diamonds. The diamond companies convinced everyone they were inferior.

I do think the western world likes to support child labor. While else would your iPhone be so expensive? It is carefully assembled by child hands.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Hehe yeah, "Sure, you could buy perfect diamonds grown in lab conditions that are way prettier than anything we could offer for way cheaper, or you could buy our authentically dirty or broken diamonds to -prove- you paid way more money to anyone that looks close enough to notice. Won't they be jealous of how rich you were".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think one of the most common talking points against lab grown is that they are too perfect. "It's the imperfections that are beautiful" or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That sentiment they manufactured is exactly what I was, apparently inexpertly, lampooning.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, as of aesthetic imperfections can't be grown in a lab.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah it's the same as the people who are being oppressed by the corporatocracy voting for an oppressor because they just want to feel powerful by stepping on someone else. The "Slugs for Salt" group doesn't care if they are salted as long as the snails beneath them get salted and they get to feel like it's them doing the salting.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Exactly, just get her some lab grown ones. She won't know the difference. It's okay even if she does, because this website sells them pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is an act of terrorism against OP's wallet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

impressive, very nice.

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